Glad that is done

Well, it’s one of the things expected of us in academia. We go and present papers. We go and listen to the papers of others. I admit, it’s not my favorite thing at all. I prefer reading papers myself, and talking about the implications with the author.  But, it’s the way things are, and I have to do it.  The best part of conferences are interactions between papers; and this time I got to meet many young scholars like myself, and get some connections, though it is hard to keep long-term connections, except by talking to them at other conferences, unless one runs across someone else interested in the same research and decides to work together with you. Still, I think was able to get to meet more this time than at the national conference, so that should help in the future.